Luxurious Black Cow

His first attempts to make vodka from potatoes and apples proved unsuccessful, but instead of giving up he decided to use whey left over from his cows milk, usually treated as waste and fed to pigs. He used a special strain of yeast to convert the lactose into milk ‘beer’ and then distilled the liquid into vodka. Says Barber, “it tasted so good we decided to go into production.” It takes 20L of milk to produce enough whey to make 1L of vodka. Co-founder Paul Archard says they’re turning whey “into a luxury product”.